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Justice Thomas calls transgender language a 'lie' in concurring opinion
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- Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are.
- To use language to obscure reality to show indifference regarding the truth — is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens as equal[s], he continued.
- The justice referenced the term gender dysphoria in his opinion.
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Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable biological characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary; and man and woman, boy and girl, are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex, Thomas wrote.
To use language to obscure reality to show indifference regarding the truth — is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens as equal[s], he continued.
The justice referenced the term gender dysphoria in his opinion.
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